[udig-devel] Re: Shuffling the content of the German user guide

["Matthias Basler" <matthiasbasler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jody replied:
> > I don't care. I am leaving these links for now because the online
> version of the online help gains a lot through them imho.
> >   
> I will do my best to make the links work then.

Thanks a lot for trying.


> > P.S. In this context: I have noted that in your quickstart you have PNG
> screenshots of over 250kB. Saving them as JPG could reduce their size to
> about 80kB. PNG are nice for screenshots of single-colored faces but these
> images actually show raster images (e.g. clouds layer), so JPG is far better
> here.
> >   
> Good to know; I will switch my screen shot taking practices; I had 
> stopped because JPG was making the text hard to read.

Yeah, for images of small icons and menus PNG is far better (no artefacts).
For Screenshots where most of the image is single-colored it is also better, since there are no artefacts on the sharp edges and single-colored faces.
For images of "photorealistic" content the compression ratio of JPG is much better and at a compression ratio of 1:10 ("90%" in my software) the artefacts are almost invisible and the text stays well readable.

I have replaced the two large PNG screenshots in the English Quickstart by much smaller, but not too compressed, JPG counterparts.
Doing so I noted that the attachments to the quickstart show several screenshots that are not used on this page, such as
  Quickstart8Map.png (350kB, 2 or 3 versions)
  Quickstart5Map.png (270kB, 2 versions)
I wonder if these images are used anywhere and if they are exported as well even if they are not used.
-- 
Matthias Basler
matthiasbasler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx